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Friday, April 29, 2016

Featured Photographer: Pere Ibañez

“I'm originally from Barcelona,
Spain, and I majored in film making and script writing.

For the last eight years I have been
living in Beijing, China where I have my own studio and teach art
classes at a college. I recently published my fourth photo-series
and book titled

“ I.See.Dark.”

“I worked on some independent film productions (mostly as a student) and directed a few on my own, but I
realized it was somehow frustrating to compromise ideas in order to
satisfy a team of people or fit a budget. That frustration led me to
stray away from art for awhile.

It was years later following a very
low point in life that I decided to leave my comfort zone and move to
China, and give a second chance to art. Photography had all the elements I
loved in film making, the aesthetics, the narrative the drama, ...
without big budgets or large teams of people.”

“I've used all kinds of cameras from
iPhones to Polaroids, results always being similar, which leads me to
believe that the photo is not really in the tool you're using but in
the light, composition and chemistry between the model and
photographer.”

“I photograph because I have a
physical and psychological need to express myself.

I'm not prone to
share my problems or talk them through, but I stage and create
situations in which I metaphorically face them."

“The cathartic element is there, but
I'm not always aware of it. I put so much of me in my work that I
often feel it is hard to look back and stare at some pieces because
of the over-whelming emotions they bring back.”

"I'm attracted to the most emotional and psychological side of life,

the fear, love, anger and struggle.

Emotions which are found in human relationships, with others and with ourselves."